Cigarette



(No Modl.)

E. BOURGEOIS.

GIGARETTE. x No. 269,256. Patented Deo. 19, 1882.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDMOND BOURGEOIS, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA,

CIGARETTE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,256, dated December 19, 1882. Application Filed March 28, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known lthat I, EDMOND BOURGEOIS, a resident of the city of New Orleans, parish of Orleans, and State of Louisiana, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Cigarettes; and l do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and correct description ofthe saine, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specication.

On the drawings, Figure 1 is a portion of corrugated paper partiallyperforated. Fig. 2 is a View of a cigarette with my improved mouth-piece, said mouth-piece rolled with corrugations parallel with the axis thereof. Fig. 3 represents a cigarette with corrugations of mouth-piece rolled spirally to the axis of same.

This invention relates to that class of cigarettes which are furnished with mouth-pieces of different material from thc wrappers thereof; and it consists mainly in the mouth-piece a, which is made of corrugated paper, said paper partially perforated and rolled with its corrugations parallel with the axis ot' the cigarette b or spirally'thereto, so as to form passages, which, by reason of the perforations, communicate with one another, thus insuring a perfect draft through the mouth-piece.

As a protection t'or the outer surface of the mouth-piece, as well as to secure a pleasant taste, the said mouth-piece may be covered with a single wrapper of corn-shuck or other suitable material.

The mouth-piece is secured to the cigarette either by the wrapper thereof or by a separate piece, c, of paper pasted around the connecting ends.

Having described my invention, what Iclaim as'new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, Is

A cigarette provided with a mouth-piece which is constructed ot' corrugated paper having perforations therein, said paper rolled into the form of a cylinder, through which aperfect draft is insured by reason of the communicating air-channels which are formed by the corrugations andl perforations, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof Ihereunto sign my name.

E DMOND BOURGEOIS.

In presence of* P. J. FINNEY, H. P. SUMAN. 

